Senior Director, Innovation

Core responsibilities:

• Design and lead Campus Compact's innovation pipeline, including ideation, evaluation, experimentation, and scaling phases
• Monitor, synthesize, and translate emerging research, policy developments, and field-wide trends into actionable insights that inform innovation priorities
• Lead the development of innovation pilots, cohorts, challenges, and sprints that test promising approaches in real-world settings
• Guide the transition of successful pilots into scalable models, toolkits, training programs, platforms, or cohort-based offerings

This role strengthens student civic engagement, democratic discourse, and higher education's public purpose by identifying, testing, and scaling field-facing innovations that foster democratic principles and address polarization.

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree required, Master's degree preferred with 7+ years experience in similar capacity & responsibilities
• Significant senior-level experience in higher education, democracy, civic engagement, social innovation, or related field
• Demonstrated success leading complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives with national or field-wide scope
• Experience designing or managing innovation, pilot, or scaling initiatives and supervising professional staff

This is a remote, full-time, exempt role with regular travel required. The position is funded through a multi-year philanthropic investment and contingent on continued funding. No specific compensation, perks, or culture highlights mentioned in the description.

Campus Compact is a national coalition of colleges and universities committed to the public purposes of higher education, dedicated to developing students' citizenship skills and forging effective community partnerships through community-based teaching, scholarship, and action.